Promoting Open Schooling across Europe to make school science relevant to real-world challenges.
The MULTIPLIERS project has just launched its new MULTIPLIERS Open Schooling Hub: a platform hosting a wealth of teaching and learning resources for educators looking to address some of today’s most relevant real-world challenges, such as vaccination and biodiversity protection.
By Lina Varg and Christina Ottander, Umeå University Society benefits from the forests’ contribution of a variety of services such as wood production, climate control, and spaces for recreation. However, the different stakeholder perspectives could lead to conflicts of interest which need to be considered with regard to economical, ecological, cultural and social aspects. Umeå …
The start of the 2023/2024 school year brought a good dose of inspiration to our Open Science Community (OSC) in Germany, where our partners from the University of Bonn kicked off the activities of their new MULTIPLIERS theme “Biodiversity and Agriculture”. In the past year, our German OSC focused on the topic of Vaccination, and …
By Èlia Tena, UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona) In the first semester of 2023, the MULTIPLIERS project approach and core concepts were presented at different international Open Schooling conferences. In May 2023, the MULTIPLIERS project perspective was introduced as part of the IV ETE conference (Educating the Educators conference) in the Netherlands. In this event …
By Dr. Irene Drymiotou, University of Cyprus In a normal library, you read books. But in a human library, you read people. The human library method is frequently used to establish open conversations with people one would not meet in their daily routine, and this is what makes it so interesting in the context of …
By Sara Močnik, Primary school Šmartno pod Šmarno goro On April 15, the 9th annual Spring Carousel took place at the Šmartno pod Šmarna Gora Elementary School in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Organized to raise contributions to the school fund, the event was dedicated to Earth Day this year. We aimed to find ways to bring environmental …
By Dr. Irene Drymiotou, University of Cyprus MULTIPLIERS in Cyprus seeks to raise awareness of the critical problem of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), which has been declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the 10 threats to global health. According to recent statistics from the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), …
How can students develop skills such as argumentation and critical thinking? The Umeå University is investigating the topic using the Forest Lab learning materials around forest use and forest protection By Teresia Borgman Action competence is all about knowledge and abilities such as critical thinking and argumentation. According to the Swedish National Agency for Education, …
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In Cyprus, our Open Science Community (OSC) is experimenting with different teaching methods to increase societal awareness about AMR, a topic of high social complexity and of difficult resolution.
